New PPH Cycle Opens for Third Quarter of 2025 – Telecommunication Applications Excluded

In accordance with Ordinance 03/2025, published by the BPTO on March 25, 2025, a new limit of 800 Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) requests is open for the third quarter of 2025.

Unlike the previous quarter, new PPH requests for applications with main IPC H04 (telecommunication) will not be accepted this quarter.

The BPTO will reassess the admittance of PPHs for telecommunication cases for the last quarter of 2025.

Up to this point in 2025, the BPTO has received 1118 PPH requests. The average time between the PPH request and the decision is 2,5 months.

The graphic below shows the numbers and type of the first BPTO action after the PPH request. The general allowance rate for applications under PPH in 2025, including cases allowed after responding to Office Actions, is of 98,01%.

The major technical fields of the PPH requests were digital communication, medical technology, pharmaceuticals, and computing.

You may find more details on the new PPH rules in Brazil for 2025 in our previous newsletter by clicking on this link.

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